The Sun. — London, England, 1809-08-08 00:00:00

IThe last accounts ,from Spain are of a most satia :Etory nature, and - we have no- doubt that in a short time we _shall receive intelligence of great import ance from that quarter. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY has been joined by the reinforcements nuclei-Gene ral CRAW FORD, and the British army, in conjunc tion with that of General CUESTA, was 'advancing with the intention of forcing General VicTnit to an engagement. VICTOR and SEEASTIANL'S armies are said to amount to about forty thousand men, but they are in a most deplorable Condition, and in want of almost eVery''speciel of supplies. SOULT is en deavouring to form a junction with them, and as his -corps' consists principally of cavalry, it is probable that he will accomplish his objeet. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY'S force, after the junction of - Genefal CRAWFURD, amounted - to about twenty-five thou sand effettive men. CuEsTA's army exceeded forty thousand men. General BLAKE has been under the necessity of adopting some very strong, neasures, in consequence of the scandalous behaviour of his -troops in the affair at Belehite. He hag reduCed above sixty Officers to the ranks, and ,promoted . ..Some.Non-Commissioned Officers to succeed than ! He has also issued a 'Proclamation, threatening all the fugitives with death who did not return to join ..their ranks. Corunha PaPers.,• to the 25th tilt. have been re ceived, frOm which Weliave made some extrads. V WE this morning received a Charles Town Paper of the 3oth of June, but it does not contain any news of itiwortanee. We stopped the Press yesterday afternoon to an _ noupce the arrival of Gerntan Papers to the 30th ult • from which we have this day, made some- further 'txtraalk. It appears that the- Tyrolese continue their gallant efforts, notwithstanding the Armistice, .BTIONAPARTE was to leave Vienna on the 15th ult. but no positive accounts have been received ot his departure : it is said that he was going to Stralsund.. Letters from Naples state, that the English had taken possession of Ischia and Procida, but that they bad not landed on the Continent. The success of our Expedition, which has already 'been so honourable to our country Men, and which promises the attainment of all the objets for which. it was intended, hoWever satisfaaory to the people at large, was rather likely to excite the spleen of the Opposition Writers than to afford them any plea sure. Accordingly we find, that instead of being disposed to "- assume a virtue if they have it not," *high would have shewn some regard to decency and the feelings of the public, the chief organ of a P arty, who =vex can be contented with any thing While they are,excluded from the direction of af fairs, are arraigning Ministers for not having sent a . force for the Capture of Walcheren a month ago, Which, the Writer says, might have been done with- Out the smallest difficulty. liut granting that this capture might have been as easy as the Writer states, is it to be supposed that Government intended to net upon the contraded scale which seems to have 113 ectlpied the mind of the Opposition Writer ? l in he not reason to believe that some ulterior g b jea was in view, of more importance than the.! capt ure of Walcheren, whatever'may be its value ? 204 Was it to . be expeded that Ministers would h ave frittered away the great armament which th ey have so ably and with so much diligence prepared ? Besides, were not this Writer . abso lutelY blind, he could - perceive the folly of such au Expedition, as he proposes, for if it had taken place in the manner he suggests, it would only have serv ed to , apprize the enemy of the whole of the we had in view, and have led; perhaPs, to its •" t ire frustratibn. But we are told that it has riot b een found necessary to disembark three brigades of °u r troops who are now tossing about in the tran sports, upon the Dutch coast." Would this sapient . Politician then have had more troops disembarked the service required ? or would it not have been More modest in him to infer that the Expedition has some ulterior object of interest and magnitude in view, for which these Brigades 'are intended ? To expel,' l'owever, so much modesty and candour from the PPosition Writers, would be •shewing a lamenta :_.hle iznorance of _their charatlers and designs, We iu4 Y be assured that no British. troops will be l' 'ttpt tossing in transports," when they can • • 9e employed in effective service on shore,. and from the success -which -- has attended our e fForts in Walcheren, and the neighbouring places, We have every reason ,to repose with .confidence on the general result of the Expedition. But the Opposition Writer cannot dismiss the subje& withouta compliment to the " celerity and vigour" which mark the operations of his favourite Buotaa- TARTE. Surely, after such a signal proof of the in-. trepidity of our gallant troops, which we had the pleasure of recording yesterday, and which was confirmed in the Gazette of last night, he might have found a better subje& for his panegyric than the man who is the bitterest enemy to this Country; and the °hie& of detestation and horror all over the world. 1 1 / 4 7AVAL NEWS. 1 POIITSMOUTH, At7G. 7, Arrived his 'Majesty's ship Champion, of 24 guns, Capt. 13... ITENDErtsoN, from Lisbon, Also the Sceptre, Price; Ellcn, ; Barrick, ; Metcalf, Lawson; Ocean, —; Loyal ; Wil liam, ; Hero, Brenn ; Paricant; ; Mi nerva, Frankland ; Bbstick, Wilsbn ; bowson, Prtielove ; • with about thirty sail of other, transports, also under thl . • above . convoy: ,'• Providence, BARRETT ; and Union SCOTT; from . . Sunderland. The Ganiiet, sloop of war i§ appointed convoy to the Downs: DEAL,' AUGUST 7.—Arrived from the River the Anna Belie, ABERCI:ONInY, for Tobago; and the Terciiizand Vii. BULLY, (01: Buenos Ayres. FALMOUTH, AUG. .b.—Arrived the Smanwick, CLARK, from Virginia; and the Venus; CLARK, from. Lisbon, for Cork (very leaky) ; she spoke yesterday three prizes captured by the Eine ral cl fri gate.; two from. QuadalouPe, and one a coasteT% • The Orpheus frigate, of 38 guns, i§;to.be.lannelt..- ed on the mit instant,, at Deptford: • The. Queen Charlotte, of 120 guns, is in a great . state 01 , lor watdness, and is expected to be launLhed the firit spring tide in O&ober. _ J - Sit:EDWARD PELLEW, who lately arrived in Eng land in the. Culloden, with the East India fleet, was so fortunate as. to hear of the rupture with the Danes, while at sea, soon after its breaking out ; and upon this information, set sail for the Danish settlement at Trahquebar, in the East Indies, and took it by sur prise. Admiral DRURY arrived there from England some time after, .with a force to take it, but found Sir EDWARD PELLEw• in possession. Sir EDWARD has returned to England, with a fortune of between 'forty and, fitly thousand. pounds by.this enterpriie. Yesterday being her Royal • Highness the Princess ANELIA's Birth-day;_ the same was duly 'celebrated by. their MAJESTIES and Royal Family at Winds& Palace. The Prince of: WALES,. !Dukes of YORK, ; KENT, and CAMBRIDGE; and Lord HARRoWB", ar rived to congratulate her Royal. Highness oh the &- easion. • The Prince of WALES left Windsor at twelve o'clock. The rest of. the Royal, Brothers - did not leave till the afternoon. His MAJESTY, the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CUMBERLAND, Trinbesses SOPHIA', :and, AUGUSTA, accompanied by Lords. HARROWRY, and •EIAR COURT, Lady G. MURRAY, Generals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, and Colonel TAY toß;.took, their usual rides in Windsor Park, and returned at - half past twelve o'clock. The Prince of WALES has expressed his. pleasure that the Officers of the iOth Light Dragoons will, in future, .abstain. from all racing matchesiagairist time, and, has strialy prohibited gaming. Alormal intimation has, lately been given to the Americans at Parisi that. the Government of the United 'States milk soon determine to join . the French or the-British in the war, as it Would no kniger ye poSsinte maintain a neutrality between the two Belliaerent d Powers.- • A vessel arrived yesterday which left the Dutch coast last Saturday, and brings. some account of the effect produced on the public mind in Holland by. the intelligence of our Expedition. The Dutch Government, it appears, is ill assured of the fidelity of its stibjects, and therefore prevents, as tar as it is able, all intercourse between the several towns. It is particularly anxious to prevent any communication between the disaffeCted and the Bri tish Government. For this reason the greatest pre cautions are taken to hinder the further escape of any vessels from the coast of Holland. No ships are allowed on any account to leave. any of the ports, and the rudders of such as are equipped for sailing .have been taken away.. 'The vessels belonging to the fishermen have also been secured. In Inc Netherlands, too, we -find, that as great an anxiety . .. prevails as in Holland. A vessel is alSo arrived from Ostend. There, too, tidings had been received of the Expedition, and it was thought to be destined against that place. There were not an hundred soldiers either at Ostend, Bruges, or Ghent ; and the French Fundionaries were so alarmed by. the apprehenSions of an hostile visit, from the con- Seiousuess of their own defenceless condition, that they had sent their families into the interior. 'A:number of the Conscripts recently in these pro vinces, had been encouraged to abandon their posts by the hopes of being, able to join the Expedition.. They-lay concealed 'in the woods. Several of the public Officers, natives of the Pays Bas, had been arrested, being suspeaed of viewing the British Ex pedition with a friendly eye.. We are assured that Prince STAHREMBERG has received no dispatches whatever ft - Om his Sovereign. The following is extraaed from a letter, . dated Placentia, July 13 :-" Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY :went the day before yesterday to CURSTA, and . I hear will return to-day ; a circumstance occurred last night which may interest you : a man in the dress of a Spaniard.met a serjeant 'of the 29th, in the street, he told him that a soldier was lying out side the gate dead drunk, and wished the serjeant to go and see him ; he went; saw no man ; the other desired him to proceed a little farther,_ as possibly the private had crept on : he enticed him at lag to a considerable distance, when he and four more seized the serjeant, and questioned him about the army, -and was very anxious to know where Sir ARTHUR lodged, and where be was. The serjeant of course could give no information, .and It two o'clock they told him they would wait no longer, as Abe day be gan to appear, on which one of them fired at and wounded him" -in the arm. They-have not been heard of since.' The House of ORANGE may be said to have al- ways had more immediate influence in the Southern Dutch Provinces than in the Northern. Their pri vate property was chiefly in the former. Seventeen villages in the neighbourhood of Breda belonged to them, as owners of -the soil, not as Princes; and their condua tot their tenants was puch, that the lat ter were little less enviable than land-owners,, holding their farms from generation to generation, at very easy rents. GERMAIV, VAP.ERS, PRIVATE C.ORRE,SPONDENCE. EXTIIACT OF A LETTER FROM VIENNA, Oiq JULY. '" General the' Prince of bicirteNsTgit4- nritved here yesterday at noon. He had an interview with • the Minister of Finance. The . report is that the Emperor NAPOLEON intends • to set out today for Paris. "Last week many persons were arrested, accused of having spread false news. "The tine, regiment of Chasseurs. of the Grana Daftly, is admitted into the linperial Guard." WARSAW,-JULY 15.—Private letters from Lublin state that on the Bth of this month the Authorities ' assembled at the Town , •Hall to take the oath of i • minty to the Emperor NAPOLEON, and that the. French Eagles have every where replaced those of Austria. • • EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MUNICH, DATED 1 STA JULY. "We have ,to-day learnt that the Tyroleans have entered Upper Bavaria, in spite of: the notification made to them of the Armistice. The troops of the line were relieved at nine o'clock in the evenilig . by .the National, Ggarcl: I." Some detachments bf jnrantri jet cut in the night Mr Roche' and WolfarthshauSen, where the. of the Duke D'Aaco is stationed. The re ' bA have been repulsed, and entered into the.moun-• taiaS."—(Abeille du Kard, 28th July.) - • FRANKFORT, JULY Royal Highness the Gland Duke of WURTSBURGLI set out this morning to return to his dominions. The .departure of his Majesty the King of SA• OSTY is 'not yet fixed. • According to intelligence froM Dresden, the Austrians do not appear disposed to evacuate that Capital, though they did not enter it till the 14th, consequently two days after -tile Ar- Enistite. We do not doubt but the .evacuation will take place as soon as the EmperOr has giVen direc tions in:this respeal.—(Tbe same Paper). NAPLE - S i JULY s.—When the' English .were seen covering the sea with their ships, menacing S'ucces . - sively- all the. coasts . ot the kingdom, and at length arriving before the capital with two hundred tran sports, and sixty ships of war, many persons be lieved .that the moment was arrived when the enemy • • would carry into execution the plan of invasion `which he had for several years announced. His Majesty had, on the contrary divined the true inten tion of the enemy, which was merely to re-animate our civil diSCords, to promise succours to all the ill- , disposed, but to furnish none, and to make war on the King by his own - snbleals. The event soon jus tified this opinion, for all the menacing derlionstra= Lions of the English, all their fortnidable hostile pre parations ended - only in the attack of the two islands of Ischia and Procida, - defendeJ by a feeble garrison of invalids. They hOped that we should send all our'fOrce tO the, assistance- Of these islands, not to attack our troops, but to blOckade them, and separate them from the Continent by the superiority of their marine. Kik hope ! the islandS have been prudently lett to themselves, and the' enemy has occupied them in despize of himself; thus our forces have remained untouched, • and the enemy have neither been able, nor dared, to make any attempt against Naples. „ •i r We learn at this' moment that the-English have landed 400 men in Ischia, - and likewise 800 sick. It appears that an epidemic disorder has -manifest ed itself on board their ships; tli:s circumstance removes to a still greater distance, the hope we had •entertained of seeing land on' the Cur - nine - mail army, which the inconveniences of the sea, wore'than the fatigues of war, slowly consume, It czin -no longer be doubted, that a great part of this army is com posed of brigands collected in Sicily, and persons who had emigrated with the old:Court.—(ribeille du Aord, 28M July) ALTONA, JULY 28.—According to .the Constitu tion Ofthe French Empire, .all-dignities, titles, and nobility are abolished at Rome. , In the Danish Official Gazette it is stated that an English fleet has appeared before Cronstadt, and that proper dispositions have been made there to re ceive the enemy, should he attempt. It was reported at Manheim, on the 21st of July, that the Emperor NAPOLEQN- was shortly expeded at Strasburgh.—(*eile du Nord, July 28.) DRESDEN; JULY 2 t.---This City has seen yester day and to-day. in a state of great alarm. - Genet al Am-EtinE, entered yesterday at 9 in the morning, at the 'head of a_battalion of regular troops, and some battalions' of landwelir (militia), with i pieces of cannon, composing in the whole a body of 4,000 men., This General having received an estalette quietly evacuated'the city on the 23d, at three in ,the afternoon. A Quarter-master a short time after.an nounced the arrival of the Saxon troops. BERLIN, JULY 0. - -Some ill-disposed persons have mentioned that the Duke of•BauNswicx Ofus was assisted here in his enterprizes, by the transmipsion 'of several articles of warlike stores. The absurdity of this assertion must be manifest to every one, that purchases of this kind ..cannot be made without the knowledge of Government, since they are prohibited, and the miltary cordonS on the frontiers under clandestine exiortation absolutely impossible. • The. most con ; vitf:ing proof; however, how much-the 'Government dis:pproVe the conduct of this Prit;ce, and especially the.ProelaMation, in which, he has taken upon him 'to make' use of the name of the King 'is, that . his Majesty, to sheW his „displeasure at'the Doke, has ordered the sequestration of the prin6pa.lity - : SPORTING INTEL Lit7;I4:A7CE. EDINBURGH RACES: MONDAY, JULY 3t. :,The City of F.dinburgh's Plate of cogs. Mr. Baillicis gr. h. Mark Anthony - - • Mr R. llog's b. m. Sophia - - - Mr. Garland's b. tn., fenny - - - • Mark Anthony walked over the course the second heat, k Notwithstanding the various reports in circulation for several dayi past, 'of the seizure of a quantity of _gold . , on its way to the Continent, bone -Was aanally seized until ,Sunday evening.- :It had been know;,, We suppose, that an information had been laid of the intention to export gold, which had caused. the pre :mature report. 'At the ' tinie above mentioned, however, some officers proceeded on board a Yesiel in the River; bound to the Continent, and ; witho it hesitation; went to the secret hiding-place of the. vessel, and there found In bags of gold, which they took away. The' money was ,not counted, 'and - therefore the 6)00 sum was not, ascertained ; but it must: have amounted to several thousand pounds. • Besides this, they found some India goods ; which bad not been eatered. None but•the - Captain knows to whom the. gold belongs. s The BrokerS for tiffi Ship : are ready to attest their ignorance of the trans ;aellonin the most solemn .manner. It i 45 not to be Wondered at that gold should be so scarce,. which is certainly the fad, as it has lon borne a premium in this country, for the' purpose of exportation. --- Perhaps the persons so trafficking irrgeld are not aware of .the heavy penalty they are liable to, aril • we therefore annex the abstrad of an A& of •ment relative to this subjea • „.• Be it therefore' euatled by the King our Sove reign Lord, by , the assent of the Lords and Corn . mons in-this present Parliament sassenibled; and by the authority of thefsame, That if any person or persons ; after the first day of April next coming, exchange any coined gold, coined - silver ; or moneyi giving, receiving, or paying ally more in value, be nefit, profit or advantage for it s than the same is or shall. be declared by the King's Majesty's Prociama-: tion ,to be current for. within -leis Highness's Realm, •and other his Dominions, that then all the said coined gold, save?: and money so exchanged, : and every part and parcel thereof, shall be forfeit, and the parties so offending shall suffer imprison- ' ment by, the space of 'ooe'year, and make fine at the King's pleasure. -2. The one: moiety of the said gold, silver, or coin 'so forfeited,, to be to thd icing our Sovereign Lord, and the other moiety to be to the party that seizeth the same; or will sue for it by bill, plaint, original anion of debt, inform 'at*, or otherwise, in any of the King's Courts of _Record; in which suit no essoign, prOteaion, or 'wager of law shall lie ; be allowed,. or admitted." . LYCEUM.—The Manager of this Theatre 'mina obtained permission to represent the established mns sical piece; of the English stage, last night brought forward the ropulitt opera of The Duenna, and to give additional attraction to the piece, engaged that excellent Cotnediatt QUICK, to perform the parr of Isaac, The veteran was received with-a tumult of applause at his entrance, and his a&ing drew forth many repetitions during the .performance. He played with admirable spirit, and vyith that chaste humour for which the Old School, as it,is called, has always been distinguished. PirtiliPs is the very best-au/es we ever saw. He delivered flee dialogue with great animation, and sung the airs with great and 'eftea.—We advise him, however, not to discitr;zl the beautiful air of Oh! had my love ne'et smil'd jin me:: The substitution of " Just filet • Love is raking-a great liberty with one of our classical' drama's; and is the more improper as the author is, alive.—A:neW, Pet former mad 6 an attempt to support the charades of Antonip,- but he was so lamentably, deficient, that RAYMOND was obliged to conic ferwafd; • and request' that. the audience wou!d permit this performer to go through the piece, stat ing that it was the aim of the Manager to give ta lents an opportunity of , shewing, themselves but as the present candidate for their favour was not so fortunate as to obtain it, the part should be given to Mr, MARSHALL in the next representation of the piece.—ThiS apology was well received.--sHoR,N - sung the airs of Ferdinand very respeetably, but he 'has much to learn in point' of deportment. MrE. MOUNTAIN was cliartni!l She gave the airs adinirsbly. A more.pleasing representative of Louisa than Mrs. ()Rosa we have never seen. She played. with great ease and spirit; and if 'her vocal -powers are not of the higher kind, she sings unaf feetedly.' Mrs..SPARKS inade old Margaret. v,ery.con spicnchas;.and PENSON was tolerable in Dori Jerome. SMITH being indisppied, DOYLE took the part of Father Paul, apd.acquitted himself very Opera. was altogether brought forward in a manner , suitable to its merit, and Was very well received •by a crowded audience.—The ballet of Knosehou, or The !forest Fiend, followed' with unabated success. It is the avowed produCtiop of Mr. Pococxe, jun. . a Gentleman justly distinguished for his talents as ari - artist,,and who in this work has sheWn that he is well acquainted with stage effea.—The Princess of WALES was present: Though The Foyndling,of the Forest is so great a favourite with the public, and promises to ret a i n i ts popularity through ,theseason, yet we hope that it will : not prevent Mr. COLMAN from gratifying the public with some dramatic novelty before it closes . . Mr. COLMAN is among the very few diamatists'-of the present day •who possesses real genius and ori ginal humour, and those natural powers have had the advantage of high classical attainments. , ' This day there was no Court of Ald ermen held, but the LORD MAYOR, after inspe&ing the returns of the-Baket's Company, and Meal Weighers, ordered the price of Bread to be raised 3d. per peck. • Sunday morning, about two o'clock, a iiackney coach, with three persons M it, going along Parlia ment-streeti vas stopped by four felloWs, one of whom stood at the horses' heads, while the others robbed the passengers to the amount of Ifil. and made their escape. Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a portnianteau was cur from behind a coach in the Strand, by two thieves, but being . observed by some young men passing., they dropped it near- fte New °Church/Owl-Made their escape. , : , , . There.'ik-a great scarcity of partridges this year, and those that are seen appear rather weak, in conse quence of the severe spring,pd- cold suturrier. The corn barvi.st has 'commenced iii Susse:Z and th • ad joining corn counties, and promises to be very abun dant.